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Author: Eliyahu Goldratt
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: As a physicist and master of business management, Dr. Goldratt applies the principles of physics and the method of logical reasoning to business management, creating the "Theory of Constraints" (TOC), a unique approach to solving numerous corporate problems. He has written a series of business management novels based on this theory, which have now become globally popular. This book is set in a factory, using Socratic-style questions as a guide, accompanying the protagonist, Rogo—a plant manager with both technical and management training—to experience a journey of falling into, climbing out of the, relieving pressure, challenging, and overturning harmful management concepts that are revered yet detrimental. It identifies the causal relationships between actions and results, thereby providing a clear, efficient, and simple-to-understand method for solving complex management problems that applies to all types of businesses... The masterpiece of the most successful business management novelist in history, Dr. Goldratt. Objective—simple yet effective common-sense management. Praised as the "most successful business management novel in the world so far," translated into over 20 languages, with a global circulation of over 4 million copies, and designated as required reading for finance and business management students at prestigious institutions such as Harvard Business School and other Western universities. This book uses a refined novelistic style to explain the author's original "Theory of Constraints" (TOC). Through an engaging narrative of how the implementation of TOC in a factory transforms a crisis-ridden situation into a path of gradual improvement and eventual success, it introduces many fundamental principles of business management.